Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 5]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 5]

1949

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Part 1, miners uncover uranium oxide in Colo. Part 2, the Librarian of Congress hands the Lacock Abbey copy of the Magna Carta to the Brit. Amb. Justice Frankfurter expresses the gratitude of the U.S. for its loan. Part 3, James C. Pitrillo of the Amer. Fed. of Musicians and Frank White, industry spokesman, sign an agreement ending a ban on the manufacture of recordings. Part 4 shows Davis Cup matches (tennis); Ben Hogan and "Babe" Zaharias (golf); a Stanley Cup game (hockey); Citation (horse racing); Leo Durocher with N.Y. Giants players (baseball), "Babe" Ruth in Yankee Stadium, and a World Series game; winter events in the Olympic Games; and Joe Louis and Marcel Cerdan (boxing).

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